*Attending the Children’s Forum will be leaders from General Administration of Press and Publication of the People’s Republic of China, IBBY, CBBY, Foreign Delegates, Reporters and Child Representatives. Total attendance is expected to be over 400 people.

*The Host will be Bai Xue, Beijing No.2 Junior High School Student.

*Please be seated by 14:00 (2:00pm) and enjoy a short musical performance

Bookstart administrators and participants of the IBBY world congress, who are interested in reading promotion, baby books, child development, partnership between agencies and sectors, etc, are all welcome.

Programme:

In this seminar, speakers from around the world will talk about Bookstart programmes in their countries. These will be followed by presentations and discussions about the universal essence of Bookstart.

Bookstart was launched in England in 1992 by the Booktrust. The programme provides free packs of books for babies with guidance materials and messages for their parents and carers.

Download Participants List and Countries represented in Macau

By clicking here, you will be redirected to the page where you can download two PDF files of back-up material concerning the participants, nationalities and other statistic materials of the 30th IBBY Congress in Macau, 2006.